Welcome!
Welcome to the new City of Alexandria VAGenweb page. I am endeavoring to bring you useful genealogical information about the area. However, I'm a college student out of state, and don't have much in terms of the ability to go to the city to add information to the page. That said, this website depends LARGELY on submitters. If you are looking for info and can't find it here, when you find it, please submit it! We really need your information.
This website thrives based on input suggestions and submissions from readers like you! Please please please Email any comments, questions, or suggestions to me at EmbryProject@gmail.com (and because I do run more than one site, please specify it is for City of Alexandria in the subject line).
~Alice Warner
HISTORY
Much of present-day Alexandria was included in a 6,000-acre land grant from Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia, which was awarded to Robert Howson, an English ship captain, on October 21, 1669. Less than a month later, Howson sold the land for 6,000 pounds of tobacco to John Alexander. Merchants petitioned the Virginia General Assembly in 1748 to establish a town. It was named Alexandria after the original owner, John Alexander.
Alexandria was incorporated in 1779 and was a major port city. Ten years later, Alexandria and part of the surrounding Fairfax County were given to become part of the new District of Columbia. Alexandria was given back to Virginia in 1847. In 1952 it acquired city status and a new charter. For more information, please visit the wonderful City of Alexandria official homepage.
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